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The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the urgent need for robust observability solutions and reliable IT infrastructure. On that Friday, employees started their days with unwelcome surprises. They struggled to boot up their systems, and travelers, including some of our own, faced disruptions in their journeys. These personal frustrations and inconveniences were just the beginning.

Resource Explorer, part of LogicMonitor Envision platform, is an innovative resource management and visualization tool that helps you navigate the ever-growing number of resources in your hybrid cloud environments. In today’s dynamic IT landscape, where environments are increasingly complex and distributed, effective resource management is crucial.

When you hear about Adaptive Metrics in Grafana Cloud, all signs point to how it’s a game changer. Adaptive Metrics, which aggregates unused and partially used metrics into lower cardinality versions, has delivered a 35% reduction in metrics costs on average for more than 1,200 organizations. Companies have also spoken candidly about the cost savings they gained from the feature.

Managing multi-cloud environments often means juggling different monitoring tools for each provider, leading to increased complexity and operational overhead. To solve for that, we’re excited to introduce Cloud Provider Observability — an application for monitoring AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services, all in Grafana Cloud.

In this article, we will examine a Kubernetes metrics server and its uses. We will also learn how to set one up and use it to monitor Kubernetes metrics. Finally, we will explore using Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to monitor Kubernetes metrics. To easily get started with monitoring Kubernetes clusters, check out our tutorial on using the Telegraf agent as a Daemonset to forward node/pod metrics to a data source and use that data to create custom dashboards and alerts.

OpenTelemetry can auto-instrument your Java Spring Boot application to capture telemetry data from a number of popular libraries and frameworks that your application might be using. It can be used to collect logs, metrics, and traces from your Spring Boot application. In this tutorial, we will integrate OpenTelemetry with a Spring Boot application for traces and logs. Before the demo begins, let's have a brief overview of OpenTelemetry.

Kubernetes is now the industry standard for cloud-based organizations. Slowly, many enterprises and mid-level companies are adopting it as the default platform for managing their applications. But we all know Kubernetes adoption has its challenges, as well as its associated costs. How do we decide when and what to migrate to Kubernetes? Does migrating to Kubernetes mean overhauling all DevOps processes? Adopting K8S should not lead to an overhaul of your DevOps process - it should complement it.

In today’s dynamic IT environment, effective Digital Workspace Management and Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) are critical for maintaining operational efficiency and optimizing Digital Employee Experience. For IT Operations and Service Desk teams, navigating the complexities of hybrid work environment and ensuring seamless service delivery is challenging now more than ever.